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398. HillsboroughThe village of Hillsborough 10 miles south of Belfast, is something of a showpiece. Many of the Georgian townhouses along the steep main street are craft and antique shops. Across the square with its charming market house, the mansion visible through a pair of magnificent wrought-iron gates is Hillsborough Castle, formerly the residence of the governor of Northern Ireland. On the other side of the square, beyond an oval lawn, Hillsborough Fort was built by colonel Arthur Hill in 1650 to command the road from Dublin to Carrickfergus. A prominent feature of the east and south approaches to Hillsborough is a 5-mile wall surrounding this lake and its adjoining forest. Services in Hillsborough Bed & Breakfasts | Hotels | Car Rental | Vacation Packages
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399. HilltownThe many pubs of Hilltown, eight in the high street, are a legacy from eighteenth century smugglers who shared out their contraband here. The village has a livestock market on alternate Saturdays, a picturesque sheep fair and festival in early July and a large sale of rams in September. The Georgian market house opposite St John's parish church (1766) adjoins the old hostelry, the Downshire Arms. The weathervane on the pretty cupola is a fish, a reminder of the good fishing in the Bann and its tributaries. The forge at Katesbridge 10 miles downstream has a similar vane. Services in Hilltown Bed & Breakfasts | Car Rental | Vacation Packages
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400. HolywoodHolywood is a affluent satellite town of Belfast. The clock tower of its old priory, dating from the thirteenth century, is floodlit at night. An abbey founded in woods here in AD620 by St Laiseran was connected with the larger Abbey at Bangor. Services in Holywood Guest Houses | Bed & Breakfasts | Car Rental | Vacation Packages
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401. KilkeelThe harbour at Kilkeel bustles with the province's largest fleet, and is busiest during landings and at auction time when fish, including herring, are sold on the quay. There are fish-processing factories around the port, pleasure angling off the piers and miles of lobster pots along the coast. The town has winding streets, terraced shops and houses with stepped pavements, and a bend in the middle round the ruins of the Old Church, a fifteenth-century church with a sixth-century predecessor from which the town took its name - cill caol ('church at the narrows'). Services in Kilkeel Guest Houses | Bed & Breakfasts | Hotels | Car Rental | Vacation Packages | |
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402. KillinchyKillinchy is beautifully located on the west bank of Strangford Lough. There are watersports provided nearby, the Ulster Way passes by the village. Services in Killinchy Bed & Breakfasts | Car Rental | Vacation Packages
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